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Date: 04/09/20 20:41
Thirty Thursday: KCS
Author: jgilmore

There's a GP30 buried in this KCS consist at Tower 19, reversing back to Santa Fe's Dallas Yard in 1987 after cutting off it's run-through train. They will couple onto the next EB run-through from the SF and pull the train back to Shreveport. For many years there were 1-2 manifests exchanged each way daily with the Santa Fe, numbered 53-56 IIRC, almost always run with sets of older 4-axle power. JG

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Date: 04/09/20 21:45
Re: Thirty Thursday: KCS
Author: Frisco

Did or should I say does the KCS have a lot of units with out Dynamic brakes?

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Date: 04/10/20 08:54
Re: Thirty Thursday: KCS
Author: eljay

Hard to be sure, but I believe the other 3 units are SD50s, which didn't have the traditional EMD dynamic "blisters."

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Date: 04/13/20 22:09
Re: Thirty Thursday: KCS
Author: MP4093

No not SD50's in 1987. These are GP40's that KCS got from the IC, that's why no DB.

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